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FMA-2016-07 · 2016 F = ma (AAPT)

2016 F = ma Exam — Question 7

A mass on a frictionless table is attached to the midpoint of an originally unstretched spring fixed at the ends. If the mass is displaced a distance A parallel to the table surface but perpendicular to the spring, it exhibits oscillations. The period T of the oscillations
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